And possess the wisdom which
realizes selflessness with respect to everything.

With both means and wisdom we are
liberated from the extremes of existence and peace,

And we become accomplished due to
possessing the ten powers.

སྟོན་པ་གཅིག་གམ་མི་གཅིག་གང་ཡིན་ཀྱང།

Tön pa chik gam mi chik kang yin
kyang

བསྟན་པ་ཕན་དང་བདེ་བའི་རྒྱུ་གཅིག་ཡིན།

Ten pa phen dang de way gyu chik
yin

བན་དང་བོན་གྱི་ཁྱད་པར་ཅི་ཕྱེས་ཀྱང།

Ben dang bön gyi khye par chi
chey kyang

འདི་དང་ཕྱི་མའི་འདོད་པ་གཅིག་མིན་ནམ།

Di dang chi may dö pa chik min
nam

Any teacher, be there one or
many,

Is a cause for the benefit and
welfare of the teachings.

Whatever differences separate the
Buddhists and the Bon,

Are they not those who believe in
this and future lives?

དེའི་ཕྱིར་གངས་ཅན་བོད་ཀྱི་གྲུབ་མཐའ་རྣམས།

Dey chir kang chen phö kyi drub
tha nam

ཀ་ར་སྦྲང་རྩི་འོ་མའི་མངར་བ་བཞིན།

Ka ra drang tsi oh may ngar wa
shin

མངར་ལུགས་མི་འདྲ་ཀུན་ཀྱང་མངར་བ་སྟེ།

Ngar lug min dra kün kyang ngar
wa te

ཐམས་ཅད་ཕན་དང་བདེ་བའི་གཞི་རུ་གྲུབ།

Tham chey phen dang de way shi ru
drub

Thus, the various traditions of
the snowland of Tibet

Are like the sweet taste of
sugar, honey, and milk.

Sweet traditions, no matter how
many there are, still are sweet.

They are all established as
sources for the benefit and happiness of all.

བདག་སྙིང་དྲི་མེད་སེམས་ཀྱི་རི་མོ་ནི།

Dak nyi dri mey sem kyi ri mo ni

ཕན་བདེའི་གཞི་རུ་གྲུབ་པའི་ཆོས་ལུགས་རྣམས།

Phen dey shi ru drub pay chö lug
nam

འདི་དང་ཕྱི་མའི་སྐྱབས་གནས་མཆོག་ཡིན་ན།

Di dang chi may kyab ney chok yin
na

ཐམས་ཅད་མི་ཉམས་དར་ཞིང་རྒྱས་པར་སྨོན།

Tham chey mi nyam dar shing gye
par mön

Images of stainless hearts and
minds,

Religious traditions which are
established as sources of benefit and happiness,

If you are supreme objects of
refuge in this and future lives,

I pray that you all may spread
and flourish without decline.

བདག་སྙིང་དྲི་མེད་སེམས་ཀྱི་རི་མོ་ནི།

Dak nyi dri mey sem kyi ri mo ni

ཕན་བདེའི་གཞི་རུ་གྲུབ་པའི་ཆོས་ལུགས་རྣམས།

Phen dey shi ru drub pay chö lug
nam

འདི་དང་ཕྱི་མའི་སྐྱབས་གནས་མཆོག་ཡིན་ན།

Di dang chi may kyab ney chok yin
na

ཐམས་ཅད་མི་ཉམས་དར་ཞིང་རྒྱས་པར་སྨོན།

Tham chey mi nyam dar shing gye
par mön

ཐམས་ཅད་མི་ཉམས་དར་ཞིང་རྒྱས་པར་སྨོན།

Tham chey mi nyam dar shing gye
par mön

Images of stainless hearts and
minds,

Religious traditions which are
established as sources of benefit and happiness,

If you are supreme objects of
refuge in this and future lives,

I pray that you all may spread
and flourish without decline,

I pray that you all may spread
and flourish without decline.

Note: If you are curious as to
why there are random words and images being displayed in the video, my
assumption is that it is an attempt to encourage Tibetans to speak their own
language, even with more technical words where they might tend to use Chinese
otherwise. That being said, here is a very lovely and meaningful song in praise
of the various spiritual traditions of Tibet and calling for their unity. There
is even some very profound dharma in this song, with very specific references
to certain doctrines. If you are wondering what "existence and peace"
refers to in the second verse, these two are synonymous with samsara and
nirvana, respectively; the perfect and complete buddhas are said to transcend
such an extreme duality. As for the "ten powers" of a buddha, here
they are:

(1) knowing what is possible and
what is not possible, (2) knowing the results of actions, (3) knowing the
aspirations of men, (4) knowing the elements, (5) knowing the higher and lower
powers of men, (6) knowing the path that leads everywhere, (7) knowing the
origin of kleshas, which leads to meditation, liberation, samadhi, and
equanimity, (8) knowing previous lives, (9) the knowledge of transference and
death, (10) knowing that the defilements are exhausted

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